$3K eff. I open A♥ A♦ to $40 in UTG+1, V in HJ makes it $140. V is your stereotypical 45ish recreational tightreg cleancut guy. Seems stiff and disciplined. Not quite OMC but leaning that way. The kind of player who relies on presence of fish to pay them off and on running good. Otherwise, in a lineup with few/no fish he has no edge and probably breakeven or a marginal loser.

I feel like he has KK a ton of the time here. Discounted QQ and heavily discounted AK also possible. I don't think he's ever light here. Folds to me and I make it $600. He calls.

3-Handed, $1000 eff. The game dynamics is very aggro, a ton of 3-betting, everyone opens very wide as they should.

Button is a grinder, very capable of aggression. I previously called his c-bet with bottom pair OOP and he shut down so he knows I'm capable of calling down light. B opens to $30, SB folds, I call with A♦ 9♣

Let's say you open in late position and there's a grinder in the blinds 3-betting the crap out of you. Let's say he goes completely bananas and 3-bets like 40% in this spot because he sees you as weak or whatever the reason is. Let's say we're playing a balanced range so we fold some to this, we call some and we 4-bet some according to a range we memorized at home.

So if we're playing a balanced range that means we can't be exploited right? But what if he 3-bets just way too high and we don't adjust our balanced range? We're still not exploited?